Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-03-03
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS
TRAarPLED TO DEATH BY a RUM
AWAY HORSE.
The hevs Dr. William Irwin Ac-
oopts the secresaryshtp Of the Press
byterian Home BHtsssOms-A woman
I. and KAer Child KILLED.

oopss Ame necrosnfyamtp OF the fren-
byterian HOnas BaisssOns-A woman
and MeF child Killed.
Benjamin r. Taylor, tho poet and jour
nalist, died Thursday at Cleveland, D.
Joseph W. Hesss, in Jail at Baltimore
for disorderly conduct, Sunday twisted
his shirt into rope and hanged himself.
IL Ia said that since the earthquake on
January 3lst, the land in Tyrell county,
on the North Carolina coast, has risen l.
inches.
The fertilizing works of Fowle,
Brothers, at the stock yards, Chicago
We're burned on Saturday. Loss, S25, 900
covered by insurance.
James M. Sheppard, ex-superintendeni
OF police of Buffalo, was killed In that
city on Saturday night by the blowing
down OF = new frame building.
A new steel boiler at coal shaft al
Carbon, Indiana, burst on Saturday morn
Ing, killing o boy and dangerously injur.
ing the engineer and his helper.
In Mobile, Thursday sfternoon..s q run
away horse jumped into group of chill
dren who were playing ON a sidewalk and
trampled TO deaai. 6.years-old boy.
Mary Il. Austin, convicted of abducting
young girls for immoral purposes, was
Thursday at New York sentenced to the
penitentiary for four and one-half years.
The largest oil-wells in Ohio were
struck on Saturday, one 20 miles and
another 40 miles south of Toledo. Each
hows at the rates Of nearly 1900 barrels q
day.
Mr.. Montgomery, the commissioner of
patents, Thursday notified the President
Of his desire TO resign and resume the
practice Of his profession in Michigan in
the early summer.
A FIRE at Nebraska City, Neb., Thurs
day morning, destroyed Hawkes. store
and the Masonic and Odd Fellows blocks
Loss, $l77,5OO. Several firemen were
injured BY falling walls.
The Rev. DR.. William Irwin of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Troy, N.
Y, o graduate of Princeton, has accepted
the secretaryship of the Presbyterian
Board Of Home Missions.
A tornado struck Eatonton, Ga, on Sat-
urday afternoon, blowing down two build
ings and damaging several others. A man
named Marshall was killed and several
other persons were injured.
The steamer Freddie Robinson struck a
snag on Saturday, about six miles above
St. Louis, and sank. She was valued at
$1,000 and was insured. The cargo con-
sisted of cotton and cotton seed.
Mrs. Christiana Frey was crossing the
Michigan Central bridge, three miles west
OF Ann Arbor, Mich, Thursday morning,
carrying 3.years- child, when the
Grand Rapids express struck them, killing
both.
General Thomas w. Egan died Thurs
day In New York of epilepsy. He was a
soldier of the Union and made credit
able record at the second battle of Bull
Run and with General Sheridan towards
the end Of the war.
Mrs. Cart and her two children were
caught by violent snow. storm while re-
turning from a visit to neighboring
rancho near Holbrook, Arizona, on the
18th instant. Their lifeless bodies were
found next day.
An east-bound Atlantic and Pacific pas
senger train ran into o bridge four miles
west OF Needles, Cal, Sunday night. The
engine and the baggage, mail and express
cars caught fire and were destroyed. f.
L. Gilbert, brakeman, two Indians and
q tramp wesA baxncd 70 dea.h. Three
persons were seriously and two slightly
hurt. Very little express baggage or mail
was saved.
Maggie Kusbiin, IL years OF age, was
sent by her mother to buy some bread at
bakery two blocks distant, in Williams
burg, Pa, on Saturday evening. She
has not been seen since. Sunday
morning her mother, who was searching
for her, found the basket she had taken
with her on a doorstep half way between
the bakery and the girls house. In it
were loaf of bread and the bakers pass
book. The police are looking for three
men whom they suspect of abducting the
girl.
A telegram from Danville, Ill. says that
Tuesday week hot water heater in chair
gar on the Wabash road exploded, blow
1g out the windows and heating both
lds of the car. The sleeping passengers
ire thrown about the floor, and several
them were severely injured. The car
lght fire from the lamps which had
a shattered and from the fire under
heater, and was entirely destroyed.
he passengers however, got out with
then ELECTS.
The supreme court of Indiana yester-
day week wave its decision in the Smith
Robertson case, in which the former
prayed for an injunction TO restrain the
latter from exercising the duties of lieu-
tenant governor, a position TO which he
was chosen at the general election in
November last. The opinion refuses the
Injunction on the ground of non jurisdic-
ton, thus, in effect, declaring that the
case must be decided by the general aH-
sembly and not by the courts.
The first comptroller of the treasury
decides that there is no law under which
o duplicate bond can be issued TO resi-
dent OF Chicago, who recently swallowed
q @1, 900 coupon bond in order, as he
said, TO prevent its falling into the hands
of burglars. In this case it appears that
the destruction of the bond was inten-
tional, being designedly chewed up and
swallowed through fright. It does not,
therefore, come within thepurview OF the
statute providing for the duplication Of
bonds lost in good faith.
About year ago an unsuccessful effort
was made to organize corporation In
Minneapolis, to be known as the Mort
gage Trust Loan and Debenture Company
of Minnesota. Unauthorized persons,
taking advantage of the standing of GER
tain men who signed the articles OF in
corporation, have issued circulars con-
tanning the names of persons who signed
the articles and offering Inducements 10
all persons wishing to invest In stock.
These circulars are pronounced fraudu-
lent, as no such corporation as the one
above named has any legal existence.
A telegram from st. Louis says that q
company of American capitalists, ineiud-
ing Rufus Hatch, have purchased from
the heirs of DIR. Beales, an immense tract
of land covering 50,000,000 acres, In
northwestern Texas, northeastern New
Mexico and south eastern Colorado, which
was originally granted to Beales by the
Mexican government The right of the
grant was protected by the Guadaloupe-
Hidalgo treaty. The dispatch says: "Those
interested in the purchase will not, at
present, make public the exact bound
aries.n
The boiler Of the engine of a passenger
train on the Chicago Il Eastern Illinois
railrofd exploded OF street crossing IN
Chicago on Saturday afternoon, killing
Gustavus Meinzer, the engineer, and
Clarence Law, the fireman. The con-
duetor, Woodward, was severely injured.
A woman passing along the street was
dangerously injured by flying piece OF
iron, and several other persons received
slighter injuries. One piece of iron went
through the window of q house and
knocked down o woman with BABY IN